Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Process cartridge including photosensitive member having multiple grooves and image forming apparatus including the process cartridge
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Application No.: US16677918Application Date: 2019-11-08
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Publication No.: US10955792B2Publication Date: 2021-03-23
- Inventor: Shunsuke Matsushita , Yoshihiro Mitsui , Yasukazu Ikami , Shinichi Hagiwara , Kosuke Ikada , Katsuyuki Nonaka
- Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Rossi, Kimms & McDowell LLP
- Priority: JPJP2018-213923 20181114,JPJP2018-247084 20181228
- Main IPC: G03G21/00
- IPC: G03G21/00 ; G03G21/18 ; G03G15/00

Abstract:
A process cartridge includes a developing device that supplies developer to a photosensitive member and an elastic portion that cleans a peripheral surface of the photosensitive member. Multiple grooves are formed side by side in a generatrix direction on the peripheral surface. The developer contains a toner including a toner particle and an organosilicon polymer having a structure represented by R—SiO3/2 covering the toner particle surface, where R represents a hydrocarbon group having at least 1 and not more than 6 carbon atoms. When a penetration amount of the elastic portion with respect to the photosensitive member is set as δ (mm), and a fixing rate of the organosilicon polymer on the surface of the toner particle is set as α (%), δ≤0.02×α−0.4 is satisfied.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200150583A1 PROCESS CARTRIDGE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2020-05-14
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